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Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code

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On 5/11/2015 8:42 PM, zipher wrote:
> On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 7:25:09 PM UTC-5, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 May 2015 08:33:56 -0700 (PDT), zipher
>> <dreamingforward@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>>> You are making a error that few in the programming community have caught up to.  OOP design for *data abstraction* is a completely different beast that OOP for *simulation*.  The confusion is around the use of the word "object" which both denotes a physical world item and a virtual one detached from reality.
>>>
>>> I would say that Python might not be the right fit, but instead a language dedicated to simulation.
>>
>> 	The danger there is that a "language dedicated to simulation" might
>> mean "discrete event" simulation -- which would be an even worse fit to a
>> problem of particle motion simulation.
>
> Huh?  VPython successfully models particle motion simulation with discrete events.  I don't see how you're going to update a variable non-discretely.  Tensors?  Good luck.
>
> Mark
>


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Terry Jan Reedy

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How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Tommy C <tommyc168168@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 08:40 -0700
  Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2015-05-08 18:44 +0000
  Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 10:22 -0600
  Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Tommy C <tommyc168168@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 08:22 -0700
    Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-05-12 17:53 +0100
  Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 08:33 -0700
    Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-05-11 20:24 -0400
      Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 17:42 -0700
        Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-12 11:45 -0400
          Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-05-13 20:20 +1200

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